Titel:
The Frontiers of Confessionalism in American Women's Writing

Fakultät:
Geisteswissenschaften

Semester:
Sommer 2018

VeranstalterIn:
Dr. Melissa Knox-Raab

Termin:
Mo., 10:00-12:00 Uhr

Ort:
R12 R04 B11

Studiengang:
Anglistik

Zielgruppe:

Kommentar:
The American myth of the endless frontier continues to inspire autobiographical writing. The period spanning second-wave feminism to the present includes many confessional books—novels and memoirs in particular—that challenge traditional notions of what is proper to reveal. From Maya Angelou’s recollections of growing up black and poor in the segregated American South—and being raped as a child—to Cheryl Strayed’s hike along the Pacific coast frontier after the death of her mother to Jennifer Finney Boylan’s transition from male to female, these books establish an exhilarating limitlessness in American autobiographical writing.